Couple hopes stem cells will heal son

11:01 PM,
Sep. 10, 2013

Tiser Lusk spends time with other children at The Goldman School at the ARC of Caddo/Bossier.

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A Shreveport couple hopes that stem cells will help heal their younger son of a rare condition that struck him at birth.

Tiser Lusk, 3, suffers from kernicterus, caused by too much jaundice after he was born. It is estimated that one of every 40,000 babies born in the United States develops acute kernicterus.

Tiser received a blood transfusion to treat anemia present when he was born. He spent seven weeks in a newborn intensive care unit. His parents, Daron and Mary Margaret Lusk, thought the transfusion took care of the jaundice, but the damage was done. They noticed as soon as he came home from ...